Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial (eBook)

The Yildiz Case

Avi Rubin (Autor)

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2018
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5455-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdulaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ottoman senior officials stood a criminal trial and were found guilty for complicity in his murder. Among the defendants was the world-famous statesman former Grand Vizier and reformer Ahmed Midhat Pasa, a political foe of the autocratic sultan Abdulhamit II, who succeeded Abdulaziz and ruled the empire for thirty-three years.The alleged murder of the former sultan and the trial that ensued were political dramas that captivated audiences both domestically and internationally. The high-profile personalities involved, the international politics at stake, and the intense newspaper coverage all rendered the trial an historic event, but the question of whether the sultan was murdered or committed suicide re- mains a mystery that continues to be relevant in Turkey today. Drawing upon a wide range of narrative and archival sources, Rubin explores the famous yet understudied trial and its representations in contemporary public discourse and subsequent historiography. Through the reconstruction and analysis of various aspects of the trial, Rubin identifies the emergence of a new culture of legalism that sustained the first modern political trial in the history of the Middle East.

Autor

lt;p>Avi Rubin is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev. He is the author of Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Reihe/Serie: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Zusatzinfo: 5 black and white
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: legalism • micro-history • Middle East studies • Midhat Pasha • Modern trials • Ottoman • Ottoman history • Turkey • Turkish Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5455-3 / 0815654553
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5455-1 / 9780815654551